Le Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:06:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > For adding a rank to the references, this may be a good idea, but how do you > propose to implement this in YAML ? Perhaps it would be simpler to keep > a single reference broken in YAML fields as it is now, and dump the rest in > BiBTeX format in a separate field ?
Hi again, I think that we need to discuss the general syntax of the file. Initially, I thought it as limited to "name: value" fields like in Debian control data files. Then after adding many Reference-* fields, I found that syntax boring and introduced a trick, that hashes are permitted but that they are reduced to simple fields by concatenating the hash name to the field name. Foo: Bar: baz is therfore the same as: Foo-Bar: baz I have documented this in the Debian wiki long time ago. http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata We need to keep in mind that we will already meet a strong resistance to YAML (at least in terms of loudness; we know that sometimes it actually represents close to nothing), and therefore be carful to not go too far in directions that deviate from the name:value paradigm. This said, for me it is essential to use YAML. You can see that each time some control data files change their contents, like in the Debian archive, things break because they are parsed ad-hoc and each field needs to be described on how it is parsed. YAML totally solves this for the field syntax. And (apart from libyaml-per) it has good parsers in many languages. Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
